KPMG shows us the marginal tax rates but not the actual rates of income payed. We actually collected more revenue when Reagan dropped the marginal rate because he did away with so many deductions as well. There were many willing to pay a much higher marginal rate with a lot of dandy deductions than to pay more under a lower marginal rate,

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